The Dark Knight Rises |OT| The Legend Ends (Warning: Unmarked Spoilers Within)

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shira said:
arent the posters for all midnite viewers not just The Sydeny ScullibundoMAX
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I'm thinking we peasants aren't getting a poster. It definetely said on fandango that we'd get posters for seeing the trilogy, haven't seen any pictures of what we're supposedly getting, and that awesome Bane one has been confirmed on their Facebook page as Imax only. We got duped.
 
gnalryxcharlie said:
what's the deal with his hand?
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His left shoulder, arm and elbow were broken in the crash and he had surgery on August 5, 2008. Doctors operated for four hours to repair nerve damage in his shoulder and arm.[32] On CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight he stated that he is left handed but cannot move the fingers of his left hand. He wears a compression glove to protect against blood pooling due to non-movement. His publicist announced he was expected to make a full recovery
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Courtesy boxoffice forums

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gnalryxcharlie said:
what's the deal with his hand?
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He damaged it pretty badly in a car accident with his mistress a few years back. The car flipped a few times.

Yes. I made sure to include the mistress. Everyone's got their demons.

OH FUCK.

The only true IMAX on Long Island will not be playing TDKR. What's a man supposed to do?
 
Never fear, though. Nolan has the snub card working for him this time around. It's a very powerful card to have. The movie doesn't even have to be that good and he could win based on the controversy around TDK's 'snub' (lulz) alone.
 
I Was talking to a friend earlier about the movie. He told me what he thought the ending was going to be blah, blah, blah. Knowing that he is the kind of guy who needs to know everything and spoil things for himself all the time... The only think I said to him was, "If you went online and saw how the movie ends and are now trying to pass it off as your own theory, this friendship is FUCKING OVER!"

We will see come the 20th...lol.
 
I have a feeling TDKR will get the same treatment as The Return of the King did. Both may or may not be greater than the two previous films in the trilogy, but either way they are gonna get a shit load of nominations and awards.
 
Any other year I'd be fine with Nolan getting the win. However, I'm really hoping Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master does well or atleast Paul gets best director. Plus you have Tarantino's flick and Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. Its going to be a fun year for movie awards.
 
MrPink93485 said:
Somehow they came up with 9 last year including Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

I was rather confused.
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From EW:

So here’s how this year’s Best Picture slate of nine films was determined:

(1) The entire Academy votes for Best Picture, with each member ranking his or her five favorite movies of the year from No. 1 to No. 5.

(2) Each ballot is sorted into a pile based upon that voter’s No. 1 selection. So there’s a pile for The Artist, a pile for Hugo, and so forth. A movie must receive at least one first-choice pick to remain in play.

(3) A “magic number” is determined using this formula: [# of overall ballots] / [# of total nominee slots + 1]. The Academy has 5,783 voting members, and for simplicity’s sake, let’s say that 5,000 of them returned ballots. So that’d be [5,000] / [10 nominee slots + 1], or 5,000 divided by 11, which equals 454.5. The Academy always rounds up, so the magic number in this scenario is 455.

(4) Any movie that received at least 455 No. 1 votes is automatically a Best Picture nominee. Those ballots are set aside. However, there’s also a “surplus rule.” Simply put, any movie that initially exceeds the magic number by at least 20 percent has all its ballots redistributed based upon each voter’s next eligible choice. Each ballot is still worth only one point, but that point is now split between the voter’s No. 1 choice and some other film. I will spare you the math involved, but just keep this in mind: If an Academy member votes for a film that’s extremely popular, there’s a chance that voter’s No. 2 or No. 3 (or possibly No. 4 or No. 5) choice will have some influence.

(5) At this point, every film with less than 1 percent of the total vote is disqualified, and those ballots are redistributed to their next ranked pick — as long as the movie is still in contention and not already nominated. If your No. 2 film was already eliminated or nominated, we’d proceed to your No. 3 choice, and so forth.

(6) Before this year, the Academy’s accountants would continue eliminating the film with the fewest ballots and reassigning those ballots until they were left with five Best Picture nominees (or 10 nominees for the last two years). But, here’s where the process was altered this year. Instead of continuing to redistribute ballots, the vote stops, and the accountants simply count the number of ballots for each remaining film. Any film with 5 percent of the total vote becomes a Best Picture nominee. If 5,000 members voted, that means any film with 250 ballots (or 5 percent of 5,000) in its pile is nominated. According to the Academy’s calculations, this last step will result in a final Best Picture slate that features anywhere from five to 10 movies.

What does it all mean? It means that, more than ever before, a voter’s No. 1 selection is the thing that matters. The only way a ballot’s No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, or No. 5 selection will come into play is if that voter’s No. 1 choice was extremely popular (triggering the surplus rule) or extremely unpopular (receiving less than 1 percent of total vote). Except for in those two scenarios, a voter’s No. 1 selection is the only way his or her ballot will have any influence.

As a result, passion rules. A film needs to receive a significant amount of No. 1 votes from the start. If the majority of the Academy puts your film in their No. 2 or No. 3 slots, but hardly anyone writes it down for No. 1, it’s not going to get nominated. In other words, it’s better to be loved by a small and passionate group instead of liked by a much larger group — that is, as long as that small and passionate group isn’t much smaller than 5 percent of the Academy.

This explains how love-it-or-hate-it films like The Tree of Life and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close became Best Picture nominees. Even if a large portion of the Academy didn’t care for The Tree of Life, there was a committed group that adored the movie — and that group was just large enough to account for an estimated 250 No. 1 votes. Bridesmaids and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, on the other hand, likely received plenty of No. 3, No. 4, and No. 5 votes. But how many Academy members flat-out loved the movies enough to place them at No. 1 on their ballots? As we found out today, not enough.
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Scullibundo said:
Never fear, though. Nolan has the snub card working for him this time around. It's a very powerful card to have. The movie doesn't even have to be that good and he could win based on the controversy around TDK's 'snub' (lulz) alone.
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LOLCOPTER

Seriously this has got to be the most pre-emptive excuse ever I've seen on GAF.

Still upset that Bigelow won over Cameron :lol
 
Kellen said:
Any other year I'd be fine with Nolan getting the win. However, I'm really hoping Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master does well or atleast Paul gets best director. Plus you have Tarantino's flick and Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. Its going to be a fun year for movie awards.
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I'll bet money that Moonrise Kingdom doesn't get nominated for anything.
 
Mariolee said:
So in other words, TDKR might have a chance.
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Sure. Hell, a lot of people argue that the expansion to 10 possible nominees is because of all the backlash from TDK's snub. But maybe The Hobbit will take it's place to satisfy the geeks.

edit: First day of Sculli being back and we're back to talking about James Cameron late at night. I feel like the world is right again.
 
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